First came the vision...

When Carlos Montez Champalimaud, grandfather of the present family owners bought Quinta da Marinha in the early 1920’s, he envisaged the creation of a residential estate of exception quality.

In those years, exiled European royalty were starting to built their houses at Estoril.
Then, Cascais was a small fishing village and the wild coastline of rocks and beaches stretched uninhabited to Cabo da Roca – the most westerly point of Continental Europe.